Steve Van Zandt has found plenty to keep himself busy in between ever-rarer E Street gigs and Sopranos filming, but I don’t think I realized he writes regular commentary for The Hollywood Reporter until seeing today’s posting via CNN.com. His primary argument is difficult to disagree with, even if it goes totally against my grain: rock bands today are smart to get their songs in movies and commercials.
What really got my attention though was his near throwaway claim in the second sentence that we’ve passed out of the rock era: “With the end of the rock era (1965-1994), the rules began changing just as fast as the technology.”
The rock era ended 13 years ago? Damn, no one told me. We is old, baby, and “out here on the perimeter there are no stars.”
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